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Author: Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes is an author and photographer. She can be found between Paris, Spain and the UK (usually mixing up her languages) while her words can be found in places such as Amethyst Review, Clover & White & Neologism Poetry Journal. Her work is heavily influenced by Modernism and surrealism. Find her online at http://elodierosebarnes.weebly.com and on Twitter @BarnesElodie.

‘Insomnia’ and other poems by Elodie Rose Barnes

19th January 202120th January 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Sleeplessness gives way to the dreamy promise of luscious fruits, beautiful bodies and fantastical lands in Elodie Rose Barnes’ poetry, inspired, in part, by Leonora Carrington and H. D.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: dreams, H. D., Images, Imagism, Imagist poetry, Insomnia, Leonora Carrington, Lullaby, Poetry, Sleep, surreal, Surrealism, unconscious, Women surrealists

Interview with acclaimed poet & novelist, Rosie Garland: ‘Rosie Lugosi, my alter-ego lesbian vampire queen, was all about disobedient queerness’

12th January 202112th January 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes talks to author, performer and singer, Rosie Garland, about discovering the magic of words as a child, being an outsider, the importance of reading poetry out loud and the feminist gothic found in her novels.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Elodie Rose Barnes, Feminism, Interview, Neo-Victorian, Nine Arches Press, Poetry, queer literature, Queerness, Rosie Garland, Rosie Lugosi, The Gothic, The Night Brother, The Palace of Curiosities, What Girls Do In The Dark

The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: in conversation with translators Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan

20th December 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes explores the epic English and Spanish poetry anthology, The Sea Needs No Ornament / El mar no necesita ornamento, and talks to its translators, Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan, about the translation process, empowering women writers from the Caribbean and the literary history behind the poems.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: anthology, Bilingual, caribbean, Caribbean literature, Creole, El mar no necesita ornamento, Elodie Rose Barnes, English, Languages, Life in Languages, Loretta Collins Klobah, Maria Grau Perejoan, Peepal Tree Press, Spanish, The Sea Needs No Ornament, Translation, women poets

Sissal Kampmann’s Darkening / Myrking: Poems in Faroese & interview with translator Marita Thomsen

17th November 202018th November 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes reviews Sissal Kampmann’s Faroese poetry collection, Darkening/Myrking, and speaks to translator Marita Thomsen about translating Kampmann’s work, Faroese weather, gender in language, and reading translated texts.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Darkening/Myrking, Elodie Rose Barnes, Faroe Islands, Faroese, Languages, Life in Languages, Marita Thomsen, Sissal Kampmann, Translation

Interview with translator Jennifer Russell: ‘Different languages open up different things in the mind’

9th November 20209th November 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes talks to translator Jennifer Russell about translating Amalie Smith’s masterful new novel, Marble, the hybridity and liminality of translation, the brilliance of Danish sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, new projects with writer Ursula Scavenius and more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Amalie Smith, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Bilingual, Carl-Nielsen, Danish, Denise Hansen, Denmark, Jennifer Russell, Languages, Life in Languages, Lolli, Lolli Editions, Marble, The Dolls, Translation, Ursula Scavenius

Interview with acclaimed writer, translator & musician, Jen Calleja

20th October 202021st October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Writer, translator and musician, Jen Calleja, talks to Elodie Rose Barnes about her journey into translation, working on the Booker International shortlisted novel The Pine Islands, her PhD and fairy tale-inspired pamphlet, Goblins.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Booker International Shortlist, Goblins, Jen Calleja, Languages, Life in Languages, Prototype Books, Rough Trade Books, The Pine Islands, Translation

Rosie Garland’s What Girls Do In The Dark

19th October 202019th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In Rosie Garland’s enchanting new collection of poetry, What Girls Do In The Dark, we’re invited to take a leap into the unknown, embrace darkness in all its forms, and encounter girls who morph and burn brightly.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: darkness, Feminism, Night, Nine Arches Press, Poetry, Queer Relationships, Queer Studies, Rosie Garland, What Girls Do In The Dark

Chapter 3: The Art of Translating a Life

5th October 202013th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her third chapter of the series, Elodie Rose Barnes walks the streets of Paris trying to uncover fragments of Djuna Barnes’ relationship with Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and her attempt to write a biography of the Dada artist’s life.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Berlin, Decorating Dissidence, Djuna Barnes, Elodie Rose Barnes, Francis Picabia, Life in Languages, Marcel Duchamp, Modernism, modernist avant garde, New York, Paris, Queer Relationships, Queer Studies, The Baroness, Translation

Interview with award-winning translator and writer, Natasha Lehrer: ‘Translation is not a word-for-word transposition. It’s another iteration of the book.’

10th September 20205th October 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Natasha Lehrer, award-winning translator and writer, talks to Elodie Rose Barnes about translation theory, Oulipo writers, the joy of translating poetry and the brilliance of French author Nathalie Léger’s prose.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anne Garréta, Cécile Menon, Consent, Emily Wilson, Enoh Meyomesse, French, French Literature, Gaëlle Josse, George Perec, Gilbert Adair, Giulia Mensitieri, Jennifer Croft, Languages, Les Fugitives, Life in Languages, Natasha Lehrer, Nathalie Léger, Oulipo, Simon Armitage, Sophie Hughes, Sphinx, The Last Days of Ellis Island, The White Dress, Tim Parks, Translation, Vanessa Springora

Dead Girls by Selva Almada translated by Annie McDermott

29th August 202029th August 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In Annie McDermott’s superb translation of Selva Almada’s journalistic novel, Dead Girls, the story of three young women murdered in 1980s Argentina asks how long will the world stand by and remain silent about violence to women?

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Charco Press, Chicas Muertas, Dead Girls, Elodie Rose Barnes, Feminism, gender violence, Life in Languages, misogyny, Selva Almada, Translation, Women in Translation, Women in Translation Month 2020

Europa28: ‘In this global political climate, translations are the stories we need.’

14th August 202014th August 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes explores Europa28, Comma Press’ anthology of women’s writing on the future of Europe, and in a very special interview talks to two of its translators, Ruth Clarke and Katy Derbyshire about the anthology, the nuances of translation and the importance of translated stories in our time.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Comma Press, Elodie Rose Barnes, Europa 28, Europe, European Union, Julia Rabinowich, Katy Derbyshire, Leïla Slimani, Life in Languages, Lisa Dwan, Nora Nadjaran, Ruth Clarke, Sam Taylor, Silvia Bencivelli, Sophie Hughes, Women in Translation, Women in Translation Month 2020

Sex and Lies by Leïla Slimani, translated by Sophie Lewis – a hard-hitting book that offers hope

1st August 20205th August 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her latest book, Sex and Lies, translated by Sophie Lewis, Leïla Slimani collects the sexual stories of Moroccan women from all walks of life to create a provoking, yet uplifting narrative.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Asma Lamrabet, Elodie Rose Barnes, Faber, Feminism, Joumana Haddad, Language, Lebanon, Leïla Slimani, Life in Languages, Morocco, Sex and Lies, sexuality, Sophie Lewis

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